THE PRICE OF TABACCO.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 January 1920, Page 4

THE PRICE OF TABACCO.

BIG INCREASE FORESHADOWED. Serious news for smokers is contained in a cable from Melbourne stating that the price of tobacco and cigarettes will Bhortly be increased by a hundred ner cent. • r In conversation with a News' representative a New Plymouth merchant stated that he fully anticipates a further substantial rise in % OTiee of to- * baeco soon, but he doubled it wOW d be as much as a hundred/per <*nt. Hn pointed out that Melbourne was centre of the tobacco trade in Australasia,, and sueh reports front there could not be dismissed, but he preferred to think that t]i© aJWounceffient was only a warning that there would be a big increase in pri ?e . He Bald ho could not conceive the price risinir m much as a hundred per cent '•lt will W a bad <iay for smokers if this happens,'headed, "for,if the price j* lal +? ~f t, , d . r per cent it will mean that cigarette* w, ich TOst „ d f J packet of ten before the cost Bd, would then cost about. i_ 9 ? packet, while tobacco * two-ounce tin before the w and u * now, would then -cost about <jg jj ' duty would not be increased, A „a' t i. * fore, the rise would not bV aetimllv doubled. It seems absurd that will have to pay so much, b»t r y-in]. they will have to pay more than do to-day." ,